I meant IMAP client in this case.As you noted correctly, the goal of POCO is not to implement all kinds of servers. The web server in POCO is an exception, because an embedded web server makes sense for a lot of different applications. However, an embedded mail server does not.

aderouineau wrote:Guenter, from this request I'm starting to feel that some kind of discussion should be started to decide the limits of POCO's features.

Since its primary goal is to be a framework, do we really want to include different servers (that by definition would be prone to security attacks)?

What do you think?

Well maybe something like wxcode could be good for Poco: A place where developers can contribute code based on the POCO framework. The sandbox contains a lot of code which can be used for this (like the JavaScriptEnvironment I'm developing).